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- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
context of resource stress: there is already not enough clean water, clean air, healthy food, or available land and there is already too much traffic and not enough space to put the garbage. The first phenomenon—urbanization—only makes... View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
state after an outbreak of illness. Approved the first generic versions of Coreg, a widely used medication for high blood pressure and chronic heart failure. Proposed new standards for formulating, testing, and labeling sunscreen drug... View Details
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
four primary trends driving the development of innovative solutions: The first is the world's population growth, forecast by the United Nations to reach roughly 9 billion by 2050, and the mass migration from... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
number of very sharp and very important junctures." Critical Junctures The first critical juncture was the invention of the printing press, which made it possible to have a media industry to begin with. The second major juncture... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
disclosing their inventions or filing in foreign countries in the interests of national security. Secrecy orders were issued most heavily in areas important to the war effort—including radar, electronics, and synthetic materials—and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
challenging conditions, such as the following, are present: When cultures clash. Negotiators from diverse organizational, professional, or national cultures often bring clashing assumptions to the table. As Ming-Jer Chen, the former... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
In our January 2 update, we featured the first part of a two-part interview with HBS professor Michael E. Porter, an internationally influential expert on strategy and competition. (Porter was recently appointed to a University... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
Christopher Columbus were, in a sense, venture capitalists. But it wasn’t until the second half of the 20th century that venture financing became a professional, large-scale industry. And the man who led that transformation was Georges Doriot. I can’t recall exactly... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
or those of other states. The national government, which had borrowed huge sums from foreign creditors to fight the long War of Independence, lacked the power to tax its citizens and repay its debts. “It was something of a miracle that... View Details
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Transportation - Business & Environment
is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, challenges facing my generation. Shared, electric, autonomous vehicles will enable urban areas to become more sustainable and more livable by providing a better alternative for first and last... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
Managing Across Borders by Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal (Harvard Business School Press) A decade ago HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett and London Business School professor Sumantra Ghoshal proposed a revolutionary new organizational model and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
no national reputation — was appointed,” Ferguson recalled. “But he listens to everyone, judges ideas on their quality rather than on their source, and makes better decisions because of that.” Financial consultant Andrew Brimmer, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
buildings pose their own set of challenges and rewards. J. Carter Brown (MBA 1958), former director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., notes that when he embarked on expanding the Gallery, he View Details
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
example of moving towards globalization to create the scale needed for business today. Q: Is there a benefit of International Accountings Standards being recognized at the national level rather than by voluntary adoption by individual... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
claim to systematic scientific insight. This book describes the first generation of economic forecasters and the methods they created to predict the future of the economy. The forecasting field was initially developed by entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 04 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?
Summing Up There is no shortage of explanations for what seems to be a current bull market in writings about leadership, according to respondents to this column. Charles Cullinane attributes it to the economic and national insecurity that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
markets, trade tariffs, and taxation virtually overnight in 1991, sending shock waves throughout its economy. For YPF, at the time heavily diversified in cinemas, airlines, hotels, and restaurants in addition to energy, the first order of... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
Illustration by Nhung Lê Illustration by Nhung Lê When Jenny Cohen (MBA 1997), a longtime Disney exec, made the leap to executive VP of corporate social responsibility in early 2021, her first task was an especially existential one: “I... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
recognizing the devastating toll of war. “Ten weeks later we were at Arlington National Cemetery honoring the lives of 21 Americans who died when their helicopter got shot down.” That toll has been a guiding force for Mullen and his most... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
others. I view my volunteer efforts as a way to perpetuate the University as a renewable resource that will benefit others for generations to come.” is partner and national director of China for Ernst & Young. Born and raised in Hong... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong